The phrase "commonplace reality" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or condition that is ordinary or typical in everyday life.
Example: "In a world filled with extraordinary events, we often overlook the beauty of commonplace reality."
Alternatives: "ordinary existence" or "mundane truth".
I sympathize with the paper's effort to dramatize the commonplace reality of gun ownership at a time when the subject is so sadly on our minds.
All three tales are terse and volatile; as Haggis pushes toward the climax, he makes the sequences shorter and more urgent, with overlapping thematic and visual motifs, until commonplace reality gives way altogether, and the stories melt into one another.
Change and organization he restricts to his art, in which he has spent his career ceaselessly reinventing, distorting, and altering the nature and appearance of life while immersed in the proved, commonplace reality of his surroundings.
"In the Cut" is completely controlled and all of a piece, and yet, apart from one performance, it's terrible — a thriller devoid of incidental pleasures or humor, or even commonplace reality.
And "Last Orders" is now a movie, opening on Friday, in which the screenwriter and director, Fred Schepisi, has used Mr. Swift's novel to compose a mosaic of tales celebrating the English lower middle class and its wry talent for surviving so much commonplace reality and hard luck, yet staying as cocky as cockney.
"Three Felonies a Day" is a great book explaining the commonplace reality of capricious indictments.
Like the Romantics, who esteemed his work, he was a rebel against the realms of genteel fancy that poets of his day were forced to inhabit, and he pleaded for the poet's right to describe the commonplace realities and miseries of human life.
This is probably a good thing, because chances are the viewing public will be more interested in such escapist fare as "The Bachelorette" and "The Mole" — not to mention a new casting competition for the latest version of "High School Musical" — than in shows that might depict more commonplace realities (anyone for a series about how to avoid foreclosure?).
"While we all are familiar with the idea that self-driving cars will one day likely be commonplace, the reality is that there is a long road ahead before we get there," DMV official Terri Egan said in a statement.
Pabulum-filled speeches have become commonplace, but the reality is more prosaic.
The notion of theology as the study or contemplation (theoria) of the highest form of reality became commonplace in the Hellenistic philosophy of the Roman world in which Christianity emerged.
